Home › X › Xxvi

Xxvi: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit. He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.— CICERO — Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio

Comœdo. XX. Magna est veritas et prævalebit. Truth is mighty and it will prevail. Translated from ESDRAS. IV. 41. Nuda veritas. The naked truth.— HORACE — Carmina. I. 24. 7.

Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum. My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. S.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 1. 11.

Ridentem dicere verum, Quid vetat. What forbids a man to speak the truth in a laughing way?— HORACE — Satiræ. I. 24.

Veritatem laborare nimis sæpe, aiunt, extingui nunquam. It is said that truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished. и.— LIVY — Annales. XXII. 39.

Non opus est verbis, credite rebus. There is no need of words; believe facts.— OVID — Fasti. II. 734.